and the past 2, 3 hours, dana, it calls to mind how important it was to strike first on thursday night and the american people can decide whether or not the presentation on thursday night was the most effective as possible. the last couple of hours, might have been lacking. we'll see what we get. >> dana: that is it for us. "america reports" starts right now with john roberts and jacqui heinrich. >> john: thank you, far left activists are holding a protest outside the supreme court just days after a crazed man allegedly tried to assassinate justice brett kavanaugh. >> the high court could strike down roe vs. wade any moment, but focusing on crimes 17 months ago, critics say biden's justice department is ignoring swaying judges outside of their homes, a federal crime. team coverage straight ahead.

>> john: fox news alert economy in crisis, democratic party rethinking its future in ways that not long ago would be unthinkable. questioning if the biden experiment is one that should continue. i'm john roberts in washington. good monday to you. >> jacqui: good monday to you. president biden dragged down by high gas prices, worst in a generation and worries it could be the beginning of an even worse economy to come. cover of the new york post, "say it ain't joe." >> john: economic turmoil not slowing one bit. the markets tanked this morning, dow down more than 600 points. experts say inflation and gas prices are still on the way up. no signs of coming down. and in a dystopian twist, americans are watching requirement accounts disappear and grocery bills grow.

>> one gas station in st. anthony, minnesota, saying we hate our gas prices too. and few answers except to blame vladimir putin. >> john: peter doocy, say it ain't joe, peter? >> peter: and republicans are not listening to the president saying the gas prices sky high because of vladimir putin, and they are disputing only because russia invaded ukraine. they think a much more obvious explanation. >> this is absolutely ridiculous. it's not putin's fault. we were a net exporter until biden came in and had a hostile energy policy. >> everything is more costly, and economyists everywhere but the white house saying the covid stimulus checks contribute the to inflation and could have been a lot worse if president biden

had his way according to an obama white house adviser. >> ironic way almost thank you joe manchin for blocking that. 6.5 trillion spending would make the numbers look small. >> peter: stocks fall, do so president biden's numbers. approval, 39.3%, but despite the position, the president is apparently preparing to run again. >> your close ally, is president biden running in 2024 and should he? >> yes, he is, and i'll tell you, bret. my understanding -- let me be clear. i'm not speaking on his behalf or announcing a candidacy, but as of now it's my understanding that the president intends to seek a second term. >> peter: he spent the first part of his day in delaware, just landed on the south lawn,

did not say anything to reporters. we expect to see him later on a bill signing. >> john: alexandria ocasio-cortez not saying yesterday whether joe should run again. and we will talk with ari and joe, about where we are in terms of gas prices, inflation, food prices, home prices, mortgage prices, i mean -- everything is going up except, you know, the wages relatively are shrinking. >> it's a problem that this president cannot get out from under. just got back from the trip to california, he's standing in front of the port of los angeles trying to talk about achievements to bring down the snarls in the supply chains and against a backdrop of a dysfunctional system, pitching the same solutions that have not worked. >> john: maybe it's time to change the game up.

>> jacqui: one would think. another public hearing, the first of three scheduled this week, played testimony from former trump advisers who occurred on the days and weeks after election day in 2020. congressional correspondent chad pergram live on capitol hill. >> chad: the committee is intent on showing former president trump ignored key advice from senior advisers the election math was not falling in his direction. committee chairman thompson says candidates must respect electoral outcomes. >> because those numbers are not just numbers, they are votes. they are your votes. they are the will and the voice of the people. and very least we should expect from any person seeking a position of public trust is the acceptance of the will of the people, win or lose. >> former trump campaign manager

stepien said he quit the campaign because factions developed, one had the ear of the president and stoking election conspiracy. >> two groups, we called them kind of my team and rudy's team. i didn't mind being characterized part of team normal as reporters, you know, kind of started to do around that point in time. i did not think what was happening was necessarily profession at that point in time, that led to me stepping away. >> chad: the committee played video from bill barr, said claims of voting machines were idiotic. promoted "crazy stuff about election results." >> it was like playing whack a mole, something would come out one day and the next day another issue. so i was influenced by fact the early claims i understood were completely bogus and silly and

usually based on complete misinformation. >> chad: barr said dealing with the president was like a wrestling match. the committee wants to show that he knew he could not win but fanned the flames of voter fraud. >> john: and di mccarthy, any doubt in your mind that the hearings are merely designed to try to keep donald trump off the 2024 ballot? >> i'm not sure about that, john, i think the democrats like having trump be relevant and they would be delighted to run against him. i'm not certain that that's the objective here. i do think the objective is to make a case to ensure from their perspective that if trump does decide to run, they have a ready made case against him but i think they would like to run against him. i think many of them think that that may be their best chance of biden prevailing in the next

election, if he runs. >> john: do you think this is going to work, this big show they are putting on? it seems you know, anybody who thinks trump was well in the wrong over the election and the claims afterwards and january 6th is of that mind now, and people who think he was right will forever believe that he was right, and do you think this will change any minds? >> i really don't, not in a material way, john. and what i resent about a lot of the rhetoric about that is people suggesting that people who are tuning out this committee, which is not really a real investigation, right, because they have kept the mainstream republican prospective on things off the committee, so this is really more political messaging than a probe or an actual investigation, but what i resent about the rhetoric is the suggestion that if you are not tuned into this, that you are apathetic and you don't care, when the reality of the situation is that donald trump

has not been president for 18 months. he's not able to impact day-to-day anymore and we all watched january 6th happen live. i remember being on the air with you guys when it was unfolding. it's not that we don't care, it's that it happened 18 months ago, we understand what happened, we have made up our minds about what happened, we made up our minds about trump's role in it, and that doesn't mean people approve, it just means there's other stuff going on in the world right now. >> john: we are hearing from, you know, people in more depth than we had heard from them before, including the attorney general, bill barr. here is what he said about his belief that president trump was becoming detached from reality post election, listen here. >> before the election it was possible to talk sense to the president and while you sometimes had to engage in, you know, big wrestling match with him that it was possible to keep

things on track, but i was -- felt that after the election he didn't seem to be listening and i didn't think it was, you know, that i was inclined not to stay around if he was not listening to advice from me or his other cabinet secretaries. >> john: and the attorney general did leave about the middle of december. so more granularity there. are we learning anything new? >> i don't think the basic story is changing, and you know, i'm not suggesting the story is over because the justice department is conducting a big investigation here, and the committee has been very -- i think unabashed on the notion that they are trying to deliver to the justice department what they think will be the predicates for a criminal prosecution of trump. now, to my mind -- >> john: do you think that would ever happen? >> well, here is the problem,

john. i think that attorney general garland in his heart of hearts knows unless you had just really, really compelling, strong, clear case of a criminal violation against trump, that it would be a profound mistake to divide the country the way a prosecution like that would divide the country. my worry is that this administration has shown a propensity again and again to basically give in to the louder voices on the progressive left and they want a prosecution here. so, will he be strong enough to say no, i don't know. >> john: we'll keep following it. andy mccarthy, as always, good to talk to you. thanks for the analysis. jonathan turley in the next hour, by the way, with more on this. we saw jonathan was on with bill and dana and martha earlier. >> jacqui: both andy and jonathan have great points, and thinking earlier, not just a show to try to put this back in the minds of voters with 2024 in

mind, but also a pressure campaign for garland to make a decision here and the likelihood if he chooses not to prosecute, the people will see that, some will see it as a choice. >> john: and people are looking at it as well saying isn't it ironic that garland is under the pressure to prosecute in the case of january 6th and post election debacle. but why is he not prosecuting people protesting outside the homes of the justices when we are clearly get overt threats against the lives of at least one. >> jacqui: we'll talk about that later in the show. crime in the big apple, though. is spiking under mayor adams. and could get worse, a mass exodus in the nypd. details next. >> john: attorney general merrick garland set to speak on gun violence 2:00 eastern time. a bipartisan group of senators reach a deal on new legislation. byron york joins us on that just ahead. stay with us.

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>> john: new gun laegs legislation, would it drive down mass shootings or criminals find other ways to arm themselves? byron york weighs in on the new bipartisan deal on guns in the senate. first, the big apple's crime crisis could get worse with a lack of police. the nypd says more than 1,000 officers have either resigned or retired, on pace to set new records. general crime is up 38%. alexis mcadams has the latest on

the big apple's police exodus. alexis, not good for the city. >> no, it's not good for the city and people here are worried about a spike in crime did not want to hear the news, and the numbers dropped over the weekend from the new york post, this comes as crime is on the rise in new york city. take a look on the screen, numbers throughout the weekend coming from the new york post. more than 1500 nypd officers either resigned or retired, that's up 38% compared to data from 2021, and puts the department here on track to have the biggest loss of man power in decades. nypd shared lower numbers over the weekend telling me it's because many officers have retired and just have not been removed from the roster just yet. like a 500 officer difference there, you can see. the question is why are the officers leaving in the first place, right? the police benevolent association of the city of new york is pointing to low pay, inferior benefits and anti-cop

atmosphere. it's a trend that law enforcement has been seeing in departments across the country. >>, if you are surprised i would should be concerned about, resignations where people are leaving before their time is th been working hard to recruit hundreds of new cops. registration is open through july, the mayor is not concerned about getting new officers on the force. >> no it does not. new york city police department is an amazing career. i know it firsthand. and we are going to find young men and women who are going to want to be a member of the new york city finest. >> they have also rolled out, john, new social media campaigns over the last several months, trying to use instagram and facebook and other ways to get people here in new york city to want to be a police officer. now, a former nypd officer tells

me it's going to take years, possibly decades to refill some of the vacant spot and the police union says it's a big threat to public safety. >> john: taking on a what, me worry attitude there? see if it continues. alexis, thank you. >> jacqui: awaiting attorney general merrick garland top of this hour to address the nation's gun violence. remarks are coming off the heels of the horrific shootings in uvalde and buffalo. and yesterday a bipartisan group of senators paved the way for a path forward on gun safety and new school security investments. here with more is byron york, washington examiner examiner and fox news contributor. questions whether it could bring down the incidence of these horrible shootings. secret service has a division, national threat assessment center and last year, i think march, put out a report that looked at 67 averted school shootings, and the big component

of all of this was mental health. you look at this bill proposal and seeing all of the discussion points around that, it does look like potential there. >> byron: potential. classic congressional technique agreeing you have agreed on a framework for something, you have not written the bill. so two big questions. one, can it pass, and if it did, would it work. and as far as passing is concerned, it's not at all guaranteed. for example, they talk about giving money to incentivize states to pass red flag laws but don't set the criteria for what the red flag laws, maybe some state does something that republicans think is far too harsh or that democrats think is far too lenient and it falls apart on that. plenty of places it could fall apart. then t it gets actually enacted in a law, would it have some effect around the margins, the

answer possibly is, but nothing huge. >> john: so folks at home know what we are talking about, people under 21 go through enhanced review background check process, go after illegal sales of guns, incentivize red flag laws, expand mental health services, penalties for straw purchases, more funding for school safety. on the surface looks good and looks like it could be effective but then negotiations over the language of the bill and you have to have ten republicans on here to get to 60 votes. >> byron: the ten republicans on board at the moment, four are retiring and the other six are not up for re-election this year. on the other hand, this is a big compromise for democrats. i mean, you don't see the assault weapons ban on that, you don't see universal background checks. right after uvalde, chris murphy, the leading democratic senator on gun control said we

know we can't pass these, we have tried before. if we didn't do it after newtown, we are not going to do it now. but maybe we can pass something smaller and this appears to be what came from that. >> jacqui: did it surprise you that democrats did not try to sacrifice the good for the perfect right out the gate and then how significant is it that the n.r.a. as not made judgment on this. waiting for the text to come in. >> the n.r.a. is a weakened organization from 10, 20 years ago, but democrats, maybe should not keep pounding their head against the wall. supreme court decision says the right to bear arms applies to individual americans, so they are up against something very, very hard and also republicans as you were suggesting earlier do have a point when they talk about mental health being a big, big part of this. so i think democrats were inclined to agree with more

money for mental health, something democrats would likely agree with. >> john: it is interesting when you look at the statistics, 1949 to 2018, only two mass shootings were committed by people under the age of 21. but since then, 6 of 9 are 21 or under. so the idea of maybe enhanced background checks could work. switch gears, today's debate in boston between lindsey graham against bernie sanders. first clips from a debate between two of the biggest names in the senate moderated by our own bret baier on fox nation. >> jacqui: it's available to watch streaming on fox nation, designed to respark the senate tradition of seeking common ground. something at the core of the u.s. senate since 1789. and talking about record high

gas prices. >> so i would ask you to focus on lowering gas prices, securing the border and bringing law and order back to america. the only way you are going do that, senator sanders, abandon the agenda that you've charted for america because it is not working. >> well, let's talk about gas prices because you are right, they are outrageously high and vermont, now, filled up the other day, 5.05 a gallon. meanwhile the major oil companies made $35 billion in profit in the first quarter of this year and at the end of the year it is estimated they are going to give $88 billion in stock buybacks to their wealthy shareholders. so i do think we have to do

something about the outrageously high price of gas. i think the president should bring the major oil companies in and tell them we are going to have a windfall profit tax on what they are doing in order to stop them from ripping off the american people. >> john: it's been a couple years and i have to say i miss bernie in these debates. it's an interesting experiment to bring it back to the way that things used to be, and did it in the replica at the full senate at the ted kennedy center. >> it is, and both men were being so characteristic. bernie was so bernie, because it does appeal to progressives to say the reason gas prices are going up, we know all that's going on in the world, but the reason they are going up is because those greedy oil companies are jacking up the prices and they are sticking it to everyday americans to give money to their billionaire and billionaire investors.

>> jacqui: a lot of civility there, i don't know if we saw common ground. >> byron: none at all. >> john: theeason that mexico

decided to keep illegal immigrants in mexico until their court date would come at the united states regarding asylum is that trump threatened to put tariffs on products out of mexico and that actually worked because of what he did with

china. but back to the american rescue plan, we worked together about $6 trillion of bipartisan spending to help with covid. i rocked the world, a million people lost their lives, doctors and nurses went through hell, the american rescue plan, according to larry summers, not lindsey graham, was ill conceived and ill designed and he said would do more to spark inflation than any policy initiative in the last several decades. this is in march last year, he was right. 9% or the 1.9 trillion went to vaccines and testing. 5 million went to this place, and i love this place. pickleball courts, still 2, $300 billion left unspent. everything larry summers said about the american rescue plan increasing inflation happened. the reason we can't find baby formula, our policies here, we are down to 2, 3 places in america that can make baby formula. the reason gas prices are high

is when you took over, senator sanders, you took out a production 10 million acres that were in production. you shut down the keystone pipeline. your policies are leading to a surge in gas prices with no end to them. so, all i can suggest to the american people, this inflationary death spiral we are in is being driven by policies that don't work. >> jacqui: china is a real interesting sort of discussion, especially around inflation because you have more lockdowns happening in china, that the economy will deal with this worse in the future but then you also have both parties wanting to be more competitive with china, but they can't seem to work together enough to pass chips or whatever they are calling it, kicked around a while, and a split in the democratic party whether the tariffs should be lifted. interesting to look at.

>> byron: it is interesting with the two men who could not be farther apart converging and supporting some tariffs. it was kind of extraordinary there. and this is why you have not seen joe biden get rid of all the trump tariffs on day one, it did not happen, and i think what you just saw bernie sanders say is indicative of that. >> john: the first in a series, hopefully we are going to get some more fiery ones, i can see ted cruz and elizabeth warren facing off against each other. chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell maybe, you know. >> jacqui: i would watch. >> byron: the world's greatest deliberative body. >> jacqui: republicans are looking to keep control of north dakota, more races in south carolina, maine and nevada. we have former president bush's

press secretary and joe lavorna here, but first hillary vaughn in reno, nevada. how are things shaping up over there? >> we have been talking to republican primary voters here in nevada. they know there is a lot on the line for them, who they pick in the primary on tuesday is going to be the person to go head to head with sitting democratic senator katherine cortez mastro, they say is the most endangered democrat this midterm election. >> what's the top issue for you guys, weighing on your mind the most? >> probably getting some of the people who are in office out of office. >> so you are really hoping to find someone who is going to beat democratic senator cortez mastro in november. >> yes, ma'am. >> former attorney general born

into nevada politics, his grandfather was governor here and a senator. also a coveted endorsement from former president trump and a lot of g.o.p. heavy hitters. >> people are fed up with all of the leftist policies that are being shoved down our throats here in nevada, and they just don't feel like washington represents us, and they don't feel like senator mastro has done anything for our state. >> enjoying a burst of last minute momentum is retired army captain sam brown, new to politics, but not to his country. he suffered life-threatening burns while in afghanistan, he chipped the lead to a 14 point spread. he tells me not getting trump's endorsement has made him work harder and doing things the old fashioned way. door to door to build a grassroots campaign. >> senate seat, only one-third

of registered republicans in state. so you have to be able to go out and outwork, outcommunicate and earn the vote of independents, and in the general, we are going to work for that win and earn it. >> jacqui, but some voters are having a hard time making up their mind. i talked to one person who voted early and told me he did a coin toss to decide between the two candidates. he liked them both and could not make up his mind. >> jacqui: interesting to watch, try to stay cool out there. i hear it's hot in vegas today. >> john: hope they have the electricity to keep it cool. experts says the economy has not recovered after it shrunk last quarter. the dow is down 760 points. poll after poll, top concerns are gas prices and inflation,

which both reached new highs last week. their worries could grow as midterms approach which historically spells disaster for the party in power, particularly in an economic climate like we are in now. ari fleischer and joe, the s & p dipped into bear market period of time, down 20% from highs in january. troubling signs on the economic horizon here. do you believe we are headed for a recession? >> yes, john, i do, and i had that view early in the year because of the movement food and energy prices. but what the fed was trying to do, lift rates pretty aggressively and also shrink their balance sheet, tightening. and metrics are in recessionnary territory. >> the president says he is obsessed with inflation, yet the more he is obsessed with

inflation and gas prices and prices, the higher it all goes. so, what's he not doing that he could be doing to get a handle on this and bring prices down? >> let's take him at his word and believe he is obsessed about inflation. problem is, government has very few if any tools to combat. one biggest tool, to unleash american energy, reduce more gas and oil, and put competitive pressure bringing the price of energy oil, gas in your tank, food, everything that derives from oil down. he does not want to do it, he can't do it, the liberal base of the democratic party needs high gas prices to make wind and solar competitive, to have the green new deal take over from fossil fuels. so, he's in an impossible squeeze in terms of what the government can do. all of which is happening at the worst possible time for the democrats heading into election, historically is a difficult election for the team in power, the party in power. add this bad economy on top of

it and potential recession, it's a triple whammy going against president biden. >> john: when you take a look at the approval ratings for the president for all the key economic items, he is so far underwater. you wonder if he can get his head back. gas prices, 72-27, economy, 61-37, and crime, 61 to 38%. if you were advising this president, what would you tell him to do? >> ari just laid out a very good case on the supply side to get energy into the economy because a lot of energy companies have not invested because they have been fearful of shareholder pushback and the politics on the regulatory side. so, certainly what ari suggested would be one factor, the other making the trump tax cuts, 2017 permanent, but that's

unfortunately not going to happen. one other point i want to add to the chart, you look at small businesses, small business optimism is basically in recessionnary territory, and they account for 40% of the jobs and could be looking not at just high inflation but also negative job rating, has not been the case up to now. >> john: one quick last question to you. how do you think this is going to play out in november? we looked back at the election of 1992, by this time opinions of the president's performance were well founded, clearly he's not up for re-election but does have coat tails. >> democrats are going to lose control of the house and the senate and they will instantly look at who should run for president. and a month or two i predicted joe biden will not run for re-election. they will want someone younger and newer, and 2023, joe biden

will be a lame duck and the democrats will breathe a sigh of relief. >> john: all right. we'll talk more about this with bret baier. thanks for joining us today, appreciate it. >> thank you. >> jacqui: another blow to president biden's border policies after a federal judge struck it down to who immigration officials can arrest and deport. this as houses of haitian migrants are trying to enter a migrant group. >> john: russia continues to block ukraine's ports as ukraine will soon learn whether it can be a candidate for the european union. we are live in ukraine coming up next. >> i am sure we will soon receive an answer. i'm convinced not only can the decision strengthen our state, but europe union as well. when pain says, “it's time to go home”

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>> john: the president of ukraine warning the world of a severe food crisis with the russian military blocking key ports. countries around the world are facing the growing threat of food insecurity. steve is live in odesa, ukraine with more. steve, a place that vladimir putin would like to make ground 0 of this conflict and a port that is plugged up right now. they are desperately trying to get goods out of there. >> john, that's the real fear here when you talk to people in odesa, if people can take the east in ukraine he'll try to take the coastline. and you are right about the grain, piling up in massive amounts. 25 million tons of grain stuck here unable to be exported because of a russian naval blockade. and you talk to the ukrainian farmers, they say they are watching what they worked for, lived for, simply rot. >> there are about 70 or 80 tons

of wheat in our village alone. the neighboring villages have the same problem, he says. everyone calls me. did you find somewhere to sell it, no, i didn't. cheaper to throw it away. >> this is turning into a global crisis right now africa is getting hit the worst. they really take in almost half of their wheat from ukraine. and ukraine is asking for help. they want western ships to help guide their grain ships safely out of port. the mayor of odesa. >> the blockade by the russian navy has created a global crisis that we cannot solve by ourselves. and nato is closing its eyes to the problem. >> negotiations led by turkey have not gone anywhere. ukraine has mined harbors. russia wants the mines removed and economic sanctions taken from russia before they will lift the blockade and the situation is likely to get worse. the next harvest at the end of

july, there could be no place to store the new crops. back to you. >> john: what are the potential alternatives if they can't get it out by ship because of a russian blockade and mines there in the black sea, could they try to get it out via rail? >> they are trying to get it out by rail. right now they are able to do one-third of their capacity. as you know, the rail size is different in europe than in the east here, so you have to load and reload a much slower process. >> john: that is complex. steve, coming to us from odesa, the first time we have had coverage there. great reporting. thank you, jackie. >> jacqui: china is not mincing words for support for independent taiwan, calling it a path to death. mike turner on that next. >> john: liberal activists protesting outside the supreme court after an assassination

attempt is ignored on sunday. why the crickets. >> we have a rule of law and you don't get to have a mob descend on a supreme court justice's house or impede the operations of government because there may be a decision you don't like.

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thank you for your time. you and i have been talking about china for a while now, i think maybe a year, and you have said before that it's so important for the biden administration to have a tough line against china and to really come to taiwan's defense and the whole taiwan flap that he had when he was in japan suggesting and then walking it back that we would come to their defense, if china attacked, do you think that provoked this at all? >> another example of the biden administration slow on the uptick. blinken in alaska hosting the chinese representatives there said you know, directly that they consider themselves in a conflict with the you state now with secretary austin, they have repeated it. i think the administration needs to start listening. china has threatened australia, taiwan and the united states. i think they keep discounting these words as just rhetoric but actually china is undertaking the most expanseive build-up,

and these words have meaning and the administration should be very concerned. >> jacqui: one thing that stood out when the foreign minister told the u.s. we supported taiwan independence it would be a path to death, and made clear to say china has not provided any support for russia's war in ukraine and referred to it as a war, rather than a conflict. what did you take from that? >> well, i think, you know, what we are seeing, these are conflicts of authoritarian governments against democracies. it's not territorial, it's them trying to impose their will. that's what russia is doing in ukraine, and seeing that with russia threatening farther into eastern europe, same thing with china. their threatening language is to democratic nations and that's a threat to their regime. the more that there is freedom

in the world, the less people are willing for authoritarian regimes to control them. >> jacqui: for people that don't follow it as close as we do, talking about why americans should be interested in what's happening with ukraine with the russian invasion, why should people care the tension between taiwan and china? >> right, and this is the battle for freedom. why china has taken on the united states and taken on australia. the problem, the administration has things that they can do instead of being soft on china with policies already beginning to debate whether or not they get rid of sanctions against china and tariffs put in place by the trump administration for unfair trade practices, these are things that the administration should be staying strong on, they stand weak on china. therefore china feels emboldened. >> why do you stand on the china

tariffs issue? >> i think they should absolutely stay in place. they are a result of unfair trade practices, cost american jobs and business, what we are seeing if they are rolled back in other instances, china just, the companies raise their prices to make up the difference. it's not as if the dollars go into our economy and also hurts american workers. >> i guess i can assume where you came down on the announcement from the administration they were lifting the tariffs on the four countries under investigation from the commerce department for circumventing a willedly china tariffs. appreciate your time. hope to see you soon. >> thanks for having me. >> john: new at 2:00, bret baier here to talk about the big name democrats who say president biden could be run and done and not run for re-election. try to convince him of that. and bret will talk about the debate he finished moderating between lindsey graham and bernie sanders. plus, jonathan turley on mainstream media ignoring the

assassination event against brett kavanaugh, and the mass exodus from the nypd. all coming up as "america reports" rolls into hour two.

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into nightmares. >> john: president biden is facing calls in his own party to cut him loose. it's a fox news alert. 2024 could be bidenless if some democrats get their way. the doubts from the left piling up as americans become increasingly fed up with soaring prices and a looming recession. >> jacqui: "new york times" putting it bluntly, should biden run, a bleak picture of the president's political future with one democrat saying our country is "falling apart." >> john: of course, the economy is at the center of much of this, gas topping $5 nationwide, one station in minnesota is telling drivers "we hate our gas prices too." bret baier is fresh off a debate between lindsey graham and bernie sanders, eel join us in just a moment with that, and talk about inflation.

>> jacqui: rich edson live at the white house for us. >> good afternoon, jacqui and john. one way to reduce the cost of oil, pump more of it. president biden and the white house are going to soon announce he's going to saudi arabia. the white house denies it has anything to do with asking the kingdom to produce more oil. >> this is a summit hosted by the saudi kingdom to allow him a chance at one time and one place to meet with a whole range of heads of state from the persian gulf, the middle east. he has decades in foreign policies and trust his firm hand, leadership in this moment. >> president biden recently called saudi arabia a pariah africa -- >> ahead of november's midterm elections, republicans argue the

push away from fossil fuels and additional pandemic relief spending in the beginning of the administration has lifted prices. >> when he came into office he had sweeping executive orders to try to kneecap american energy production. not just the u.s. but he has made it way worse in this country, and they will not reverse course. it's a religion to attack energy production in the united states and people are paying at the pump like never before. >> a couple hours ago the president arrived back at the white house, having spent the he could woo in delaware. he did not talk to reporters but is expected to appear at an event and bill signing in a bit. back to you. >> jacqui: john. >> john: bret baier, anchor of "special report," wanted to get to the debate you just finished up, but first of all, the idea that democrats are increasingly pessimistic about the biden presidency and openly calling

for him not to run again. how the "new york times" covered it. to say our country was on the right track would depart from reality since a democratic national committee member from miami, mr. biden, he said, should announce his intent not to seek re-election in 2024 right after the midterms. a lot of momentum growing to try to convince him to not run but he's suggesting that he will run for a second term. >> bret: john, jacqui, good afternoon. i think it's really interesting to see, it's not any more just whispers behind the scenes in democratic circles. these are people on the record, more and more of them, democratic national committee members, david axlerod weighing in saying he's going to be closer to 90 than 80 at the end of the second term, a major issue in his words. and so you are not seeing just one article,s you are seeing multiple articles and that tells you the angst inside the

democratic party is real. i think you are going to see more of that as you get closer to the midterms and if the midterms go as expected, if the election were held today, republicans would pick up big, there may be more of a thought about what 24 looks like inside the democratic party. >> jacqui: bret, jacqui here. the midterms are around the corner but still a little ways off and to have someone like alexandria ocasio-cortez saying what she said does not bode well for biden. a sound bite from her real quick. >> i think if the president has a vision and that's something we are willing to entertain and examine when the time comes. right now we need to win a majority versus a presidential election. >> something to entertain, that's harsh. >> bret: it's not a yes for endorsement, and it's pretty far from one is you are talking about a sitting president of your party. so, you have real issues

bubbling up publicly. obviously these democrats are being asked about those because these articles are popping up from anonymous sources and as i mentioned, named sources. so, i think there is going to be this hunger to try to find this next figure and whether that's vice president kamala harris, whose approval ratings are below the president's in some cases or some other democrat we don't know about yesterday. >> john: mayor pete's name gets kicked around. and david axlerod, worked under the re-elect president obama said the presidency is a taxing job and the stark reality is the president will be closer to 90 than 80 at the end of his second term and that would be a major issue. i mean, there's already lots of talk that he's not quite all there and you know, 2, 3 years

from now where is he going to be? >> bret: i think you look at his schedule about not really talking to a journalist in 120 days and the first thing he does is to go out on jimmy kimmel and you know, even right, left and center said you know, that appearance was not his strongest foot forward. and so i think there are real questions about where the president's going politically and there are also stories that he's increasingly frustrated with his message and campaign at the white house. midterms obviously come first. >> john: let's get to why you are there in boston, clips together between a debate of two of the biggest names in the senate. lindsey graham against the firebrand progressive bernie sanders. >> jacqui: and also, it's available to watch on fox nation, part of the senate debates to reintroduce the senate tradition of seeking

common ground, at the core of the senate since 1789. and talking about election integrity. >> we have a former president whose name is donald trump, goes around the country telling people hey, i won the election. in fact i probably won it by a landslide but they stole it, took it away from me. that happens to be what we call a big lie and yet many of the republicans that senator graham are asking you to vote for are maintaining that big lie. what does that mean? it goes beyond trump beyond the 2020 election. it means what they are saying is the entire system, you can't trust anybody. and if you can't trust the election results, then what is the obvious alternative. we need a strong man, all right. conservatives want to, hungry,

so the struggle we are facing is not just with lindsey and i disagree on this or that issue, which we do, it is the future of american democracy and whether we move to authoritarianism, based on among other things a very big lie. trump lost the election. >> can you address that, senator, can you say the election was not stolen? >> yeah, i voted to certify the election, there was some mail-in things out there, but i voted to certify the election. president biden is the president. >> did he win the election? >> yeah. >> what about all of the people trying to say he didn't, that you want people to vote for. >> what about the people saying defund the police. >> your crowd is larger than my crowd. >> jacqui: so bret, the hearings that you and i have been watching, you know, coming amid

this debate you are having, this robust debate with two great names in the senate, the hearing brought out the universally accepted truth that president trump did not accept the election results, and you have on display sort of a division about what the parties should be focusing on. have they looked in the rearview mirror or ahead and they are pretty divided on that. >> yeah, listen. i think that this exchange, senator sanders wanted senator graham to acknowledge what he did, there were a number of different exchanges on policy that were really kind of fiery like that, on immigration, on gas prices, on the definition of socialism, on number of different things. that happened to be a point where he was talking about election integrity and you heard what senator graham said, and that is an issue inside the republican party, especially in the wake of this hearing and the series of hearings on january 6th. i do want to take you to the wide shot to give you a sense of

this room. this is a replica of the u.s. senate, the well. it's almost exact at the edward m. kennedy institute here in boston, and it's spectacular. it's an amazing backdrop for this debate that we just held. you can stream it on fox nation right now, the whole hour, and it was really interesting the exchange as you can imagine, not that many areas of common ground between senator sanders and senator graham. however, it was really a conversation, and that's what they were hoping for with this, the first in the series of three kinds of debates. >> john: it's a terrific premise, one-on-one, versus 14 that we see during the election campaign. and the senators debating gas prices, what's responsible and when we do about it. listen here. >> so i would ask you focus on

lowering gas prices, securing the border and bringing law and order back to america. the only way you are going to could that, senator sanders, abandon the agenda you have charted for america because it is not working. >> well, let's talk about gas prices because you are right. they are outrageously high. filled up in vermont, 5.05 a gallon. meanwhile, the major oil companies made $35 billion in profit in the first quarter of this year. and at the end of the year, it is estimated they are going to give $88 billion in stock buy-backs to their wealthy shareholders. so i do think we have to do something about the outrageously high price of gas. i think the president should

bring the major oil companies in and tell them we are going to have a windfall profit tax on what they are doing in order to stop them from ripping off the american people. >> john: no common ground there, what's the blame, biden's policies, the oil companies, putin, the fact that global prices set the price of a barrel of oil. >> bret: senator sanders thinks corporate greed and profit, and senator graham says the liquidity pumped into the economy in part because of the rescue plan spurred it from covid and quoted larry summers and others. and the back and for the of the transition from the economy to a green energy economy, and

whether it was worth the part of the equation, senator sanders did not think it had to happen but the transition needed to happen very fast. >> jacqui: it's funny, bernie sanders, no matter your thoughts on the content, you have to appreciate he's as every bit as spirited and animated in his delivery as he has been from the beginning, and he's been saying essentially the same thing since the down of time. so -- >> that's true. and we have hosted town halls with him probably three of them during the presidential campaign, he's saying the same things. he is who he is, and he believes what he believes. and he's very consistent and senator graham pointed that out throughout the day as well. >> john: you have a second one lined up yet? >> working on it. working on it. but it's a really great project, i think, and i think over time is going to help see substance

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>> jacqui: armed man arrested for trying to assassinate a supreme court justice, but you would not know it if you turned

on the tv yesterday morning. jonathan turley just moments away on the double standard from the left when it comes to protecting our democratic institution. first, twice convicted attorney michael avenatti offering to plead guilty to multiple criminal charges he still faces in california. he's already behind bars for trying to extort millions from nike and earlier this month pocketed money from a publisher supposed to go to his former client stormy daniels. that is not the end of the road for the disgraced lawyer. avenatti is looking at hundreds more years in prison for a few dozen other charges, including stealing millions from clients, lying to the i.r.s., and defrauding a bank. the trial on the first ten charges is scheduled for late next month, but he's asked the court to schedule a hearing to formally change his plea. the same michael avenatti who once left wing media adored. >> you got lucky tonight, back

with attorney michael avenatti. a main player. >> you are like the holy spirit. you are all places at all times. he's out there saving the country. >> you are doing a hell of a job. >> i don't think you are in it for money. >> looking at 2020, i am taking you seriously as a contender, because of your presence on cable news. >> quite the fall from grace. >> john: a thing about pedestals and putting people up on them, be careful how high you put them on the pedestal, it's a long, long, long way to fall. one thing we do know, the presidential run will have to be put on hold a few years. >> jacqui: maybe he can talk to andrew cuomo about this. >> john: supreme court justice was a target of assassination plot, not a single sunday show had a second of the attempt, and

bret mayor mentioned on fox news sunday, but abc, cbs, cnn, not a peep, and brit hume who used to work for one of those networks said this about that this morning. >> the fact it merits so little coverage should tell people all they need to know about what kind of news divisions and what kind of attitude these networks have. >> john: jonathan, the news cycle moves quickly, it does move on at some point but seemed to be a pretty rapid departure from the news of the week. >> no, it was almost as shocking as the original story that it was not a story for most of the media this weekend. you know, this was not a guy who was tweeting in tulsa, this was a black clad individual standing outside the house of a sitting supreme court justice with a glock handgun, zip ties, and a

bag of burglary tools. and yet that did not merit mention on the sunday shows. and the suspicion is it did not fit the script. this is the january 6th week, the hearings are taking off, and it was simply inconsistent to talk about some unhinged liberal individual who seemed to be out for either a thrill kill or a suicide by cop, we are not sure. he's clearly very disturbed. but he was standing outside the home at 1:00 a.m. of a justice with a handgun. and so it really shocked many of us that it was effectively covered very briefly and then buried. >> john: when you take a look as you pointed out the coverage of the week on the sunday shows was mostly about the january 6th committee hearing in primetime on thursday night, clearly there were a lot of people who want to see more about what happened between the election and january 6th to really get a full

handle on it. but then at the same time, to ignore something like the potential assassination of a supreme court justice based on a leaked opinion which we know is not even the final opinion and the white hawk rhetoric flying around about these issues on capitol hill would seem at the very least to be an oversight. >> well, it's the same reason some people are tuning out the hearings and many people are tuning out the media because they no longer trust it and this is why. there is this new advocacy journalism that you are supposed to basically shape opinion, not just report the news, and that has taken old in journalism schools and taken hold in a lot of newsrooms across the country. but i think the public has gotten tired of it. there are many sources of news. but when you turn on the tv and this does not register as something relevant to talk about, it leaves viewers

wondering where they have to go to get unvarnished news where it allows them to reach their own conclusion. >> john: yeah, i want to jump to call for number three, the way the plot against kavanaugh was reported on in some of the left wing media. listen here. >> people are angry, they might seek to use the abortion ruling as a justification to cause violence. >> there are consequences to what you say and you should be more careful. >> it also shows alita what it feels like to lose your freedom of choice. maybe it's a good lesson for them. >> civilest way possible, [bleep] the [bleep] off. how dare they demand civility as they strip away our civil rights. >> clearly the court decisions attract a fair amount of protestors, shutting down the streets of washington, d.c. earlier today, thinking we may get the roe decision which we didn't, but the supreme court is

able to exist in an a political environment for the rule of law. >> you saw the face of rage addiction. and people traffic in rage. but it also treats these justices as something other than human to say i'm glad he, alito does not feel like he can step outside his house. within 24 hours of the alleged attempted murder of justice kavanaugh, protestors were in front of the house of amy coney barrett who has seven children, and you have to sit back and wonder how you can take leave of any sense of decency to do something like that. but there isn't much room for decency in an age of rage and people capitalize on it. but the problem that i have, and i brought this up before, is that the president needs to be the one to come out and say

enough, the president has to say that even if it's legal to protest outside a justice's house, there are many people on both sides of that question, it's wrong. it's wrong to go outside a justice with seven children after there was an alleged attempted murder of her colleague. it's something we shouldn't have to say but it's something the president needs to say. >> john: and the protestors were outside in front of justice kavanaugh's house the evening after the assailant was apprehended as well. jonathan, great to get your legal opinion. >> jacqui: john, a jury did not buy what amber heard had to say but now she wants the court of public opinion to think she's not guilty of defaming johnny depp. amber heard in her first interview since the scandalous trial. >> john: and mayor eric adams, a former cop, cops in new york city are leaving the force faster than any point since the

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former lieutenant and law enforcement lieutenant at pace university. thank you for joining us, darren. can you just explain what's going on here? what's causing all these resignations and retirements? >> thanks for having me on. it's multi-facetted. one of the things is there's no direction at the top. eric adams ran on the platform as being a prior practitioner in law enforcement so we applauded the fact that we would experience drops in crime in the wake of law enforcement practice -- practitioner being the mayor. but his strategy is not successful and the absolute obvious has not been in front of eric adams in terms of deployment of personnel or omni presence. and police officers understand. if we don't effectively address

crime nothing is going to be done. as a result we have officers leaving. >> what is he not doing? when are leaders not doing that you are saying need to be done? >> the mayor needs to lend deference to the practitionerses in law enforcement, "boots on the ground," individuals closest to the problem or the solution. the commanders in the crime ridden precincts understand what strategies on antidotes apply. and that's not being done and officers feel their efforts are fruitless. so coupled with the defund police movement that came under the de blasio administration, they feel their efforts are working and they feel it's best to move on and take another career as a result. >> there is an article saying the biden administration has hosted several activists from

the defund movement going over visitor logs and showing some of the people who have come in. biden's white house hosted several defund the police activists, eight have met with anti-police activists. what does that tell police especially when you hear this president and you hear mainstream democrats more and more as we get closer to the midterms trying to distance themselves from the defund the police movement and say look, i was never for this, this is the left of the party, and something like this comes out. >> to joe biden's credit he was incompetent and we knew that prior to him taking the oath of office. and people like alexandria ocasio-cortez the extreme left driving the narrative of the crime control strategy and when you look at the manifestation of the rise in crime numbers, it's clearly apparent that joe biden does not have his hands wrapped

around what the problem is. this is just going to continue. it's not just crime, we look at the economy, we look at gas prices, so as a result of joe biden's incompetence, this is just a classic example of how his policies are not working as we look through the lens of crime reduction strategies. >> jacqui: you bring up a good point talking about leadership and talking on the break about attempted assassination plot on justice brett kavanaugh, you have not heard from the president anything about law and order, you have not heard from the administration telling protestors to move away from judge's homes, these are laws that he could encourage people to follow, as well as getting their political points across, and you don't hear it from the white house, and probably because of the messaging from the base as you describe to us. thank you so much for your time. appreciate it. >> thanks. >> jacqui: speaking of not following the law, a nurse on her way to work was thrown down a staircase and police say her

attacker then stomped on her skull. so, taxpayers in seattle might be surprised their tax dollars could soon help pay for treatment, not for the devastated victim, but for the man who perpetrated the brutal attack. dan springer live in seattle with this bizarre tale. >> it's shocking, especially when you see the violent and senseless crime. prosecutors say open and shut case. in march they allege alexander jay was caught on camera throwing a 62-year-old woman down the stairs for no apparent reason. they say he then kicked her, all of this after he allegedly stabbed a different woman ten times at a bus stop. he was charged with first and second degree assault but in april he was found not competent to stand trial and the next three months at the state secure mental facility to get treatment. the problem is there are no beds available at western state

hospital and won't be for several more months. there are around 400 defendants in jails across washington waiting for a bed so they can get treatment so they can eventually stand trial. a court ruling last fall opened the door for the state to be found in contempt in cases like this for not providing defendants with a speedy trial. king county judge bender decided to punish the state for not treating alexander jay and getting him competent to stand trial. she ordered the state to pay him $250 for every day he's in jail waiting for a treatment bed. a spokesman for the department of social and health services says over the past seven fiscal years, increased 87%. backlog is so bad might not be until august that they can find a bed for jay to get him treatment to get him competent to stand trial. that would mean, john, the state could end up paying him $15,000 or more while he awaits the

trial, and this is not his first time around the law. he has had at least a dozen different convictions dating back to 2,000. john. >> john: clearly a lot of problems there in seattle. dan springer for us, thank you. jacqui. >> jacqui: another blow to president biden at the border. details on the latest policy shut down by a federal judge. >> john: and amber heard breaking her silence. wait until you hear what she had to say about the jury. fishing helps ease my mind. it's kinda like having liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. woah! look out! [submarine rising out of water] [minions making noise] minions are bitin' today. (sung) liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. minions: the rise of gru, in theaters july 1st.

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>> john: developing in ohio, u.s. marshals arresting three men in connection with the deadly beating of a high school student. laura has more on the tragedy. >> 17-year-old ethan's life came to a shocking and violent end earlier this month, an all-out search for the trio who allegedly beat the high schooler to death and this saturday they were able to track them down in akron, ohio. >> able to take bellman at surprise and make the arrest on all three of these individuals early in the morning when they were not expecting anything. >> that's u.s. marshal pete

elliott, we spoke with him this morning. 19, 20, and 21-year-olds were taken into custody by the violent fugitive force, and they were all charged with murder and assault. police say 17-year-old ethan lyman was found unconscious around 11:00 p.m. june 2nd. they say he died from blunt force trauma to the head. his father tells fox news digital his son was driving around with his friends, shooting out a splatter ball out the window, and two shot in the direction of four people playing basketball. his son tried to let everyone know it was not serious and they were goofing around, but the trio allegedly overpowered the boys and zeroed in on lyman.

>> kid only 17 years old. stomped, beaten to death. >> he was telling fox he was supposed to be taking his son, honor role student to his first college visit today, saying he had dreams of becoming a lawyer. we'll continue to follow this one. john. >> john: what a horrible story. laura, thank you. jacqui. >> jacqui: a federal judge in texas dealing yet another blow to president biden's border policy. bill. >> bill: across the river from us in mexico, there is a massive concentration of haitian migrants who have started gathering and are preparing to cross into the united states. we crossed into mexico yesterday to take a look and what you are saying are thousands of haitian migrants essentially just standing around and waiting. there was a big long single file line of 1,000 haitian migrants

waiting to get into a local migrant shelter. many hundreds of others already living inside of that shelter. now, when it comes to these haitians, most left haiti years ago and have been living in south america, predominantly in chile and brazil. for whatever reason they decided now is the time to move and get here to the united states. director of the shelter tells us the numbers he is dealing with are overwhelming. take a listen. >> it's been looking -- >> this is the result of people thinking the border is open. we are not equipped to handle this capacity and tend to the thousands and thousands of families. >> and the video you are looking at right now from a contact in the city directly across from del rio, texas. bus loads are migrants from the migrant caravan in southern mexico, they started arriving late yesterday afternoon

obviously with the intent of crossing into the united states. however, the mexican authorities stopped them, detained them, and took them away. physically removed them from the border. so we are keeping tabs on what happened with them. we'll keep our viewers posted on that. this video from over the weekend, we embedded with texas d.p.s. on the hunt for runners, you'll see the group of young men arrested trying to evade. interesting, one of the guys in the group spoke perfect english, told us he was from el salvador and he was a dreamer who was brought her when he was nine months old, grew up here, ended up getting into some trouble, committed a crime, got deported. he tried coming back, caught over the weekend, he will be sent back yet again. back to you guys. >> jacqui: thanks, bill. >> john: you knew that you were waiting for it. now amber heard giving her first interview since losing that sensational defamation trial to

her movie star ex, johnny depp. >> jacqui: she's ordered to pay the actor some $15 million in damages she does not blame the jury but is finding someone to blame for her predickment. >> john: jeff. >> if you have not heard enough about the six weeks long trial involving amber heard and her ex, johnny depp, get ready for more. first full length tv interview since moving the lawsuit she sat down with savannah guthrie, and reacted to depp receiving $15 million in damages and the fact the jury did not believe her. >> i don't blame them. i don't blame them. i actually understand. he's a beloved character, and people feel they know him. a fantastic actor. >> depp had sued for $15 million over 2018 op-ed written b by he published in the washington

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him. we caught up with mace as she's been on the trail to get supporters of nikki haley. >> i'm cautiously optimistic about the election. i expect a solid double digit win. we'll campaign and pull out a giant win tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. >> katie arrington continues to reach out to south carolina republicans, especially those that feel trump got a raw deal. >> we in this district want someone who is going to represent the three core values that we believe in. faith, family and freedom. that's why donald trump endorsed me. that's why this district will enor thes me in the ballot box. >> a few hours away, tom rice is looking to hold on to his seat. he's facing a challenge from former president trump. rice has continued his outspoken criticism of the president saying he represents the past of

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